Word: unseen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recalling her only romantic love, a carnival worker who drowned before her eyes when a partying crowd onshore mistook his desperate pleas for habitual clowning. Amid the grim reality, McPherson's characters take childlike delight in simple things and maintain a giggly sense of humor. Bessie's father Marvin, unseen but for his shadow through a glass-brick wall, has been dying for two decades -- "real slow," Bessie explains with a hint of asperity, "so I don't miss anything." He still chortles in glee on seeing beams of light bounce off a hand-held mirror and play around...
Energy is a big theme in alternative healing, but it has no real equivalent in conventional medicine (except for the fact that all living things generate weak electromagnetic fields). "Unseen, unmeasurable energy has been observed by many cultures throughout history," says William Anderson, an acupuncturist in Chicago. "In India they call it prana. In the Soviet Union, bioplasm. Some call it life force...
...overt racism of the Bensonhurst kind is an aberration. Racism--News Flash--is not gone. Institutional racisms--racisms which are nobody's fault in particular, but which are more pernicious for going unseen-haunt our society...
Keen's book arises from his belief that men have lost a unifying vision of masculinity, and are "involved in a night battle in a jungle against an unseen foe." That foe is not woman (or WOMAN, as Keen puts it, in one of the book's annoying New Age constructions), but man's unconscious bondage to women. Modern man, he suggests, easily won his Oedipal battle: the boy snags Mom because Dad is preoccupied at the office and she's hankering for a little affection. This Oedipal victory ties men to women in an unhealthy way, and Keen believes...
...cautiously low estimate of $8,000 to $10,000. (The title of the frankly phallic piece is a pun on objet d'art, substituting the French word for dart.) In a matter of seconds, bids for the 8-in. work soared into six figures in a battle between two unseen telephone bidders. The winning offer: $135,000 from a Belgian art dealer...